US Patent Issued to Adobe on March 31 for "Iteratively applying neural networks to automatically segment objects portrayed in digital images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,950, issued on March 31, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Iteratively applying neural networks to automatically segment objects portrayed in digital images" was invented by I-Ming Pao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhe Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Sarah Stuckey (Petaluma, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.) and Betty Leong (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, method, and computer readable media that iteratively apply a neural network to a digital image at a reduced resolution to automatically identify pixels of salient objects portrayed within the digital image. For examp...